Marital relationship with dialysis patients, a risk factor for kidney diseaseKerry Willis of the National Kidney Foundation in New York strongly recommends the screening of spouses of dialysis patients as they are most likely to have the same disease. Policy review is ongoing based on the new findings.
Hung-Chun Chen along with other Taiwanese researchers of Kaohsiung Medical University initiated the study and conducted a test that showed more than four in ten spouses manifested symptoms making the odds more than double the general population. A report adds the possibilities for the spouse to share the symptoms are higher than the patients’ relatives.
The conducted study suggests that health habits common to husbands and wives are factors in the development of the disease besides low socioeconomic status, inactivity, smoking, high blood pressure, and diabetes.
At present, 350,000 patients undergo dialysis many times in a week in the U.S. alone, and there are more who are battling with the chronic kidney disease. Dialysis aids the patients to remove wastes and expel excess salt and water from the body.
Willis claims early diagnosis of the disease spells the difference since the progression can be lessened to maintain what is left in the normal functioning of the kidneys.
http://www.sevensidedcube.net/health/2010/marital-relationship-with-dialysis-patients-a-risk-factor-for-kidney-disease/
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